The WINNING RESUME that got me interviews EVERYWHERE | Software Engineer

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NOT GETTING ENOUGH TRACTION ON YOUR RESUME? TAKE A LOOK AT MY OWN RESUME AND INCREASE YOUR RESPONSE RATE CONSIDERABLY!!
The WINNING RESUME that got me interviews EVERYWHERE
Resume that got me into MICROSOFT AMAZON EBAY and interviews with numerous other tech giants + startups
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Timeline
0:00 Highlight
0:27 Introduction
2:50 Resume
5:07 Skills
6:34 Experience
7:04 Microsoft
8:00 Amazon
9:24 ebay
11:10 Internships
12:50 Education
13:39 Projects
15:56 Achievements
17:32 Closing
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Software Engineer Resume
Microsoft Resume
Amazon Resume
ebay Resume
Resume Dark Theme
Skills
- Programming Languages: C#; .NET; Java; JavaScript; TypeScript; C++; C;
- Databases: CosmosDB, MSSQL, RDBMS, NoSQL
- Libraries & Frameworks: Node, React Hooks, Vue, Redux, jQuery
- Cloud: Azure, Functions, Key Vault, AWS, Lambda, CI/CD
- Unit Testing: XUnit, Jest, JUnit, Cucumber, Nightswatch
- Game Development: Unity 2D, Cocos2D, DirectX9
- Others: Git, PowerShell
- Languages: English, Korean, Japanese - All Professional Proficiency or Above
Experiences
- Microsoft (Full-Time)
- Amazon (Full-Time)
- ebay (Full-Time)
- NCSoft (Intern)
- Cyberstep (Contract)
Education
- Carnegie Mellon University (BS of Science)
Projects
- COLORMAN: apps.apple.com/us/app/colorma...
- SPIKE
Achievements
- Bronze Award: SPIKE
- Data Processing Technician
- Certificate of JLPT N1
Welcome to Pirate King. I'm a Software Engineer at Microsoft, ex-Software Engineer at Amazon and ebay. Apart from my full-time job, I also provide consultation and career mentoring to prospective Software Engineers. Here, we talk about tips and tricks on how to land a successful career in tech. If you are interested, make sure to hit that subscribe button!
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PIRATE KING
Software Engineer + Career Mentor in Tech
❗️ All opinions are my own and not my employer's.

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Download my resume from piratekingdom.com/resume

[@imsushmoy]

YAY!!!!

[@joshuaabok3329]

"People love modesty but they do not hire it." Made my day. Quite an informative video.

[@DavidSmith-bd2fd]

This is 100% true. And people love results that can are either directly connected or somewhat connect to revenue or even usage. You can easily stretch things by saying "I developed XYZ that was used to power the $1.9 billion of revenue per quarter" even if it was just a sign button on the home page. lol

[@anh5830]

I love your sense of humor and your honesty. Without doubt, you are a great software engineer, but admitting that even at your level you still exaggerated a little in some parts of your resume really took a lot of pressure off of me, as I am a CS student and aspiring software engineer myself & felt overwhelmed by the requirements of those competitive job positions. Thank you and looking forward to the next video! ;)

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Thanks! There’s always a beginning for everyone! Hope my videos are helpful to you in anyways they can!

[@naught_]

having a dark theme resume is kinda baller

[@fward]

One piece missing there that is worth mentioning for contrast: for most experienced software engineers, your resume almost doesn't matter. They will want to know your experience to gauge total compensation, which roles you should interview for, and generally what to talk about. But if you have a few years of experience and/or solid education, in 2021 you WILL get an interview pretty much anywhere. Will you get the job? Well, maybe maybe not, but the resume has very little to do with it. If you're trying to get a foot in the industry and starting from scratch, then it's trickier. But for someone with a few companies behind their belt, you WILL get a call from an internal recruiter almost guaranteed, and it's what you say then that will decide where things go. Don't intentionally make a bad resume, but don't overthink it too much. If your background is pretty solid, you could write your linkedin url on a post-it note and that would be sufficient, even for FAANGs.

[@riclerico]

😂😂😂😂 this must be the funniest most honest review of a personal resume I’ve ever seen.. great content 👍🏾

[@foreducation408]

I am so happy to found your channel at the beginning state it is gonna blow up really soon, keep up the good work.

[@blunygeorge]

5:29 I agree, and for the same reason I don't mention OOP in my resume, but recently the managers I talked with were really interested about it, which surprises me. Of course it is important, especially for work in teams, but I consider it so essential and basic, it just simply surprises me. Seeing that you also mention it in your cv, and my recent experiences I will probably put it back too to reassure the people who read it that OOP is not an alien concept to me.

[@HarimaKentaro]

Well, it's back to basics for me [reviewing/re-learning what i learned in school] then exaggerrating a little in my resume [instead of overthinking/worrying about what to write and deciding not being good enough to apply]. Great video btw :) very informative.

[@frackinfamous6126]

I love that you have been doing this style video forever and no one ever mentions the not so subtle parody that goes along with your great information.

[@genjimccorkle5518]

haha, amazing resume tips. Over here, just months before graduating, grinding my ass off on side projects which feels like 24-7 and needed a good resume strategy. Thanks!

[@yeriseok5711]

Love it! Looking forward to your next video

[@raniafathallah5205]

This video is interesting to me a student who need to start building a resume. Thanks for sharing your experience

[@ankitaburman5406]

I liked it , very informative video , Probably gonna implement few points like updating the resume the moment you finish a important project, That's something I don't really do in the day to day

[@thaneshmaheswaran4666]

All the best for ur future endeavour bro 💪 👍

[@damonaniton]

I tell people all the time. Your resume is a blank canvas. You can paint a picture of what you "know". Recruiters are just doing a key word search. Your resume is a tool to get you in front of them so they can pass you onto a manager. You can pretty much put whatever you want in there. So long as you are prepared to speak to it intelligently in an interview.

[@rafsanuddinbegrizan8090]

I loved your honesty 😊

[@Taskade]

Very informative!

[@luiscortes6563]

Thank you so much for this video! I’m definitely giving this a shot. After about 100 applications, now I know why recruiters aren’t giving me a shot lol

[@gufrankanat3383]

So good! Thank you daniel

[@dmitrybaycharov4904]

Excellent mentorship!

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Thank you sir!

[@mnchester]

great video!

[@fattijenishbek]

Thank You so much! So detailed explanation) 고마워요~

[@coordinates_]

Brooo!! This is lit 🔥.

[@thalberg-]

Your resume was definitely boosted by the latter half with your projects, instead of your work experience that you exaggerated on! I would say that your tech experience probably proved to the employers that your interest and side projects could TRANSLATE into great work in tech as well, but it was built on your strong interest showcased by your awards and projects! Sick content, appreciate the blunt truth, really enjoyed and subscribed :)

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Thanks!!

[@KL-ii6dt]

As someone who prefers to let my work speak for me rather than to brag and boast, this video was very helpful to make me realize that you either get the call or you dont.

[@tofu860ify]

Love the honesty! hahaha!

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Glad you like it!

[@534A53]

I feel like if you worked at company like Microsoft or Amazon you are way ahead of everyone else already. Just putting that on a resume would be enough to get hiring managers attention and you wouldn't need to exaggerate with the experience as much. Whereas if you worked at some unknown company then what you write for experience becomes more important in order to attract their attention, to the point where you may need to exaggerate a little.

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

True exaggeration helps a lot more for entry level resumes. But my resumes still don't have 100% penetration rate either :)

[@swertbigkalli607]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM penetration rate... i like it. it is like we are talking about breeding (he-he)XD

[@diegolemos7443]

Can you share with us the difficulties that you have along your career ?! im curious about how you pass over them, pls. and coding as well

[@tmimocha]

excellent video, like you said your resume is the LAST place you want to be modest!

[@human151]

You’re the GOAT.

[@ItachiUchiha-dv9in]

Try printing the black themed resume.

[@jeffpeng1118]

man u inspired me

[@exposedthat]

Carnegie Mellon is a respected stem school. it definitely opens door for interviews at the big techs. definitely there is favoritism at play but maybe not to a huge degree as getting I banking jobs. do you think you get the attention if you come from a lesser known school?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

that might be true for ur first job, but after u set ur foot in, it's all skills not schools

[@StarRoseAngelic]

Random but can you make a video talking about how you got so good at speaking and writing english and japanese? It probably won't get as many views as a tech vid but I'm honestly really curious.

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

I grew up in Canada and spent most of my teenage years there. My Japanese isn’t that good tbh. Just good enough to understand and communicate reasonably :p

[@JaredFL]

When you have eBay, Amazon & Microsoft on your resume you can make it in Paint and still get jobs.

[@ashs3979]

Do you have some sort of template for your resume? Like font size, spacing, etc? I really like the formatting and want to do something similar for the next jobs I apply to

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

In the descriptions!

[@imsushmoy]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM i can't see it :

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Sorry didn't realize it wasn't there :p Instead, join my Discord server! There's a downloadable copy in the Resume channel :)

[@squid4255]

Hey man, great video. How did you transition from a job in Korea to one in the US? DId you just apply online? I currently have a few good internships under my belt already and I'm looking to try to work in the US too but my applications just seem to be thrown into the void lol

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

A recruiter reached out to me. U might need full-time experience before they decide to sponsor ur visa

[@falkar11]

You remind me a lot of tech lead haha

[@surajshrestha7825]

Tech lead Jr

[@mystical124]

If it's not too much trouble, could you link the dummy resume that you showed or a template of it so we could use the same format with our own information. Thank you.

[@imsushmoy]

Did you get it?

[@mystical124]

@@imsushmoy no I did not

[@PawanBhakuni]

Can you share the template please.. know it will be a drag,,, but still....

[@imsushmoy]

I really love your resume. Can you please provide a template similar to yours?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Join my Discord server (links in the description)! There's a copy of my resume on the Resume channel :)

[@imsushmoy]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHH! I REALLY LOVE YOUR CONTENTSSSS

[@genjimccorkle5518]

So im guessing you didn't have the chance to do OCR (on campus recruiting) at your school? You seemed like you could get an easier, and paid, internship that route.

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

There was, but I simply didn’t do it then :/

[@emekecho2024]

Free bananas :0 You are awesome

[@Sam-en7sn]

What did you do for the first three years after you graduated?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

1st year: prepare to go to Japan (wanted to go right away but a massive earthquake and tsunami struck in 2011) 2nd year: learn Japanese in Japan 3rd year: Study game development + work at game company

[@Sam-en7sn]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM Damn, man, you really stay up so late! Like your content!

[@clintonagyemangduah2000]

Hey Daniel, can you please share some of your cover letters? Thank you.

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

The ones in my drive are old and outdated. IMHO, you don't need cover letters. I don't submit any of them either.

[@clintonagyemangduah2000]

ok@@PIRATEKINGDOM thank you for the response.

[@monalishabal4910]

Hii bro, I am going to engineering college this year (1st semester). I know c , c++ , html. Can you tell me which language should be in my resume to work at Amazon .

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

JavaScript. Focus on react.js and node.js

[@leslie7922]

Why is Microsoft capitalized but ebay and amazon are lower case? Even my phone suggests lower case 🤔 I could be wrong but would've thought Amazon eBay?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Not really sure :p

[@leslie7922]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM all good 👑 I'm just ultra fussy when it comes to naming tech companies properly like Sumo Logic instead of Sumologic lol

[@jhoanmartinezsilva2609]

two educational startups link?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Sorry I'm not sure if I can disclose

[@jhoanmartinezsilva2609]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM ok, understand, anyways your channel is amazing, thank you

[@arthurzlol]

man can find a job at any big tech but can't find a better mic

[@Su_Has]

Getting into CMU is easy? Was that a joke?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

I think it's okay lol

[@media7588]

Can you please add Turkish subtitles to this video?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

You can help me translate them by joining my Discord server! Link in the description ;P

[@media7588]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM I do not know English well :(

[@urvpatel2003]

Did you get job or internship?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

job

[@urvpatel2003]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM In Which company,you got job ? Microsoft or Amazon or ebay?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

@@urvpatel2003 all

[@cplusplussizeddick1430]

why do you know both korean and japanese

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Cuz i lived there both

[@cplusplussizeddick1430]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM make a video on it then dummy. easy views

[@ben-uy1ud]

Get a good mic bro.. Can barely hear you!

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Just did!

[@giselecheung6166]

No offense: 2.5 year-gap between your 12/2010 graduation and 6/2013 Cyberstep job, what where why😂

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

i went to japan and spent two years learning japanese and game development. that's why :)

[@learningislife2934]

Please give me word file

[@learningislife2934]

Hello sir Could you give me the word file of your resume?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

goldsharpstone-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/daniel_goldstone_studio/EoF53EkxhylIiG4UmoGUpOMBjnN27_u8wtIlRhU_yHLNEQ?e=PNWGAl

[@MuntahaZad]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM Thank you very much

[@yooseungwang8358]

From ROK! I've supposed that you were a native American, but your C.V showing you are definitely Korean is sooo inspiring! maybe you finished your military duty at eBay and NCSoft? I also have similar career and am very motivated by your deligence and hard working [Eng. Kor. Jap cauae my GF is japanese / graduated ECE / 3yr military duty at Company / maybe SE career / offered by Amazon / (I turned my careers into researcher )].. I am now a big fan of you and wish you all the best

[@yooseungwang8358]

저 왕씨긴 한데 한국인이예요 ㅋㅋㅋ

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Thanks! I was born in South Korea but became Canadian during high school :)